The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs] Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome] The acoustic guitar book features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, music reading, chords, strumming, arpeggios, time signatures, syncopation, hammer-ons and pull-offs, double stops, harmonics, fingerpicking, alternate picking, and scales and basic theory. Includes guitar parts from 31 songs: Body like a Back Road * Change the World * Dust in the Wind * Eleanor Rigby * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) * The House of the Rising Sun * Imagine * Love Story * More Than a Feeling * The Reason * Someone like You * Thinking Out Loud * Unchained Melody * and more.
